Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Centre for Brain Research at the Jagiellonian University in Krakau, and giving a talk at the Institute of Psychology! Thank you very much @marekpedziwi.bsky.social and @antoniafranaszek.bsky.social for the invite and interesting discussions!

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested! @ecvp.bsky.social

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact

An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

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Does anyone know of open datasets where people have asked participants to explicitly define non words? We are pulling together an experiment now and hoping to r/o iconicity and wordlikeness as content drivers

curious what real outcomes this transformation is associated with. is the overall research quality better? do people ask better questions or design better studies? are more results reported in titles, abstracts, & media valid or measured? do fields move forward faster or more effectively? etc.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow. Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

A new paper spearheaded by Sophie Heer, to which I contributed when working at @qmul.ac.uk. 'Event knowledge and object-scene knowledge jointly influence fixations in scenes'. Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

Our research shows that ~50% of mothers globally decline at least half of opportunities to participate in conferences after becoming parents (N=3995). We understand the barriers and are offering Travel Grants to help overcome these challenges. Apply now - deadline 31st March! shorturl.at/gnCU2

Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods! It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Do you or anyone you know have a template/code for an e-prime experiment that integrates with a Smart Eye eye-tracker? I just realized I may save a lot of time if one of you just happens to have any example I can borrow from. Also: any leads would be appriciated. GIF of cat tracking for attention

an orange cat is laying on a white blanket

ALT: an orange cat is laying on a white blanket

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Not only in Australia, the UK or USA! Where in the world is the higher education system doing well, I wonder?

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · last yr.

Dutch higher education in the news 😔 Universities caught in a ‘perfect storm’ due to government cuts and international student cuts. #DoeHetNiet 🟥 @woinactie.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/layoffs...

In this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Does cultural experience shape visual perception? New research finds "profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa." Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Symposium Announcement! 🧠✨ @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium for the @imrf.bsky.social, focusing on neuroplasticity in blindness. We’ve lined up some fantastic speakers and still have one slot available! If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Can anyone point me to a resource of open datasets from psychology? I am looking for ways to improve a psychology stats course for next year (based on Statistical Rethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social), and one way might be to offer more psychology-specific examples for the practical sessions.

Long time coming, but crazy to read nevertheless: The Vision Sciences Society Meeting is leaving Florida! 😮 Goodbye St. Pete Beach! Hello downtown Seattle! #VSS2027

🚨We're very excited to share our latest study, by Pablo Diego and team: "A polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models", 📄: Paper arxiv.org/abs/2412.05571 🪧: Poster tomorrow: neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 🧵: Thread 👇

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... First in depth theoretical and empirical investigation of non-decision time, essential read to all researchers using evidence accumulation models! Plz repost if at least 1 of your followers uses them and thinks that non-decision time capture sensory and motor delays

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Yana Fandakova@yanafandakova.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Dear visual neuroscientists, our department of Medical Neuroscience at Dalhousie University (in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is seeking an Assistant Professor in visual sciences. Ad below. Please repost. #neuroscience 🧪 dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/16403

"Perception" and "i-Perception" are on Bluesky! For those who don’t know Perception, this is where Horace Barlow published his neuron doctrine: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/... Disclosure: I’m currently one of the editors-in-chief of these journals.

Perception / i-Perception@pec-ipe.bsky.social · 2y ago

The journals Perception and i-Perception are now on Bluesky! We’ll post here updates about articles published in the journals, calls for special issues, and any other exciting news related to perception research.

A student asked me the other day whether I had major career ambitions like winning a big award. I told him that my goal was to do interesting things and have fun. I worry that young scientists don't see their jobs as fun... too much pressure. But then what's the point, really?

Humans use language to express thoughts primarily built around the basic agent-patient causal structure *who does what to whom* Is this a structure of language or a structure of thought? Does it exist outside language? A new wave of exciting papers speak to this question. A 🧵👇

I am not attending #VSS2024, but I am joining the trend of advertising one's work under this hashtag! In the recent JoV paper (jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...), we used Hitchcock's films to show 1️⃣ how disrupting a visual narrative alters gaze and 2️⃣ why using hidden Markov models is tricky. #VSS

Predictions of eye movements when viewing images should work well for all. Do they? We studied this with gaze data from >2,000 participants collected in the Nemo museum Amsterdam! Out in Communications Psych t.ly/Y1-Ty tldr: models do well, especially if you are a psychology student More:

🟦INVITATION CODES NEEDED! 🟦 If you have a spare bluesky invitation code, please post it in the comments here! Some people in the Old Place asked me for the codes, but I ran out of mine.

We published a paper (jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...), and I will write several threads about it. I will highlight cool bits and reveal behind-the-scenes stories. This is thread no. 2️⃣. It is about the set of stimuli consisting of static film frames that we created. 1/5

We published a paper (jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...), and I will write several threads about it. I will highlight cool bits and reveal behind-the-scenes stories. This is thread no. 1. It is a nerdy data-detective story about a serendipitous finding🍀. 1/4

The dominant diagnosis seems to be that this is evidence of a broken science. An alternative diagnosis is that if we really expected a single set of results from these 246 unique situations, we have broken our understanding of science. #STS #metascience #philsci

Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions. Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions.

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